Two brothers surrender in connection with slaying

Dale Lezo, Houston Chronicle

By Dale Lezon

Updated 12:09 am, Friday, January 17, 2014

Richard Osuna
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Richard Osuna

Veronica Muniz
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Veronica Muniz

Officials in Texas City remove the body of a murder suspect who, after hours of negotiation with authorities, refused to leave his apartment. When officers raided the house, they found him hanging in a closet.
Photo: Marie D. De Jesus, Staff

Officials in Texas City remove the body of a murder suspect who,...

Texas City Police Department officers investigate the scene. The dead suspect's girlfriend, at first thought to be a hostage, was taken into custody.
Photo: Marie D. De Jesus, Staff

Texas City Police Department officers investigate the scene. The...

Texas City Police speak to Windsor Estate Apartments neighbors after the Texas City Police SWAT negotiations with a suspect locked inside an apartment went bad. The suspect was found hanged about 20 minutes after the negotiations ended, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2014, in Texas City .
Photo: Marie D. De Jesus, Houston Chronicle

Texas City Police speak to Windsor Estate Apartments neighbors...

Numbered evidence inside the apartment being investigated after a suspect hanged himself after failed negotiations with the authorities, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2014, in Texas City .
Photo: Marie D. De Jesus, Houston Chronicle

Authorities had earlier arrested Veronica Muniz, 27, in the case. She also is charged with capital murder and is being held in the Harris Count jail without bail.

A criminal complaint against Muniz accuses her of fatally stabbing Valdez with a knife after trying to rob and kidnap him.

Deputies said his body was discovered Saturday buried 2 feet beneath a chicken coop in northwest Harris County in the 5200 block of Mohawk. Valdez was initially identified as Jesus "Jesse" Leal.

Texas City police said a man believed to be a suspect in Valdez's death barricaded himself inside an apartment on Wednesday and held SWAT officers for hours at the Windsor Estate apartments at 2801 FM 2004. When officers burst into the unit, they found he had hanged himself in a closet.

The man, identified by the Galveston County Medical Examiner's Office as 29-year-old Steven Osuna, died of asphyxia.

Police have not released information about his possible connection to Valdez's death. It is unclear if he is related to the wanted siblings.

The Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences ruled Valdez's death a homicide and determined he had died from multiple sharp and blunt force injuries.

Late Thursday, Marcelino and Richard Osuna were being processed into the Harris County Jail.